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In the 1930-ies among Soviet citizens went to a legend that the prisoners of Stalin's camps are loaded into barges, taken to the White sea and just dumped into the water. As you know, any rumors usually have a factual basis. Indeed, Solovki prisoners actually transported on barges, but they were not drowned, but was sent to the last journey in Sandarmokh.

On 23 February 1944 Chechens and Ingush suffered mass deportation from the Caucasus to Central Asia. After 13 years they were allowed to return home, but went back not all. What has changed in Caucasians over the years?

The collaboration of Soviet citizens during the great Patriotic war was a taboo subject in the Soviet Union, the phenomenon is strongly suppressed. With the beginning of perestroika began to open up previously unknown facts, there are more data about the participants of this movement. In addition to the well-known General Andrei Vlasov, a prominent figure among the traitors were Colonel Victor Maltsev. He created his own air force of Russian collaborators.

One of the heroes of the novel by Yuri Trifonov's "House on the embankment" is a schoolboy named Anton Ovchinnikov. He, like some of the other characters, there was a very real prototype. His name was Lev Fedotov. After his death he will be called a prophet and a psychic, supposedly managed to predict accurately in his diary the events of the great Patriotic war.

The consolidation of the principle of respect of this community service is extremely important for many people